New Delhi: India is emerging as the hottest Asian market for Open Source (OS) with rapid strides being made in OS adoption in many sectors of industry, education, enterprise and government, as well as in the development of Open Source applications, says Robert Adkins, co-founder of Technetra, the Silicon Valley-based technology consulting company. Technetra develops and promotes open source software and solutions for government, education, IT, telecom, banking and finance. In India for LinuxAsia 2006 that opens in New Delhi tomorrow, Adkins says, "Indian business enterprises are expected to spend $25.12 billion on information technology in 2006, that is more than 23.7 per cent over the past year. And of this, the Open Source market can look for at least a 40-50 per cent share as the opportunity." The Rs600 crore market for open source software is growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 35-40 per cent. The three major paradigms of future growth of Open Source in India are expected to be: 1. A sharp rise in enterprise wide adoption of Linux or Open Source 2. Widespread availability and adoption of regional language computing 3. A sharp rise in deployment of Open Source based platforms and applications on desktops as the movement for 'affordable computing' gathers force. The Open Source movement has made a breakthrough by demonstrating the scope and power of local language computing in India, taking away the elitist sheen associated with computing through English, used by just 5 per cent of the population.................. **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 972255 +256 71 221141 Fax: +256 31 262122 ***************************************************************** |
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